Description: Standing 4'4", this man wears a grey cloak and cross-gartered white stockings. He has moderate length chestnut hair. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. A true patriot, Nordak would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The mother sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his mother's willingness to do anything to win. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Baker for hire.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Military, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 200 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty green coat over it. She wears her silver hair up. Her black unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. A freak accident while working with her Shoemaker mother left her crippled. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and she uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Shy. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 1700 sp.

Description: This late middle aged woman wears silk and lounges about seductively and is in decent physical shape. Her white hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. When triggered she is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: She got into the Painter business at a young age. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The mother sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her mother's willingness to do anything to win. She has achieved small success as a Painter.

Motivation: To be a Map Maker again; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 600 sp. Red spinel (140 gp). Peridot (20 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This man is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized emerald on his right hand. He wears a colorful flower in his red hair. His half smiles and gold eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 160 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a blue vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His grey leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his blue boots flare out at the collars. His hair is white, silky, and of moderate length. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 350 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He has the majority of his body covered in plate. He has dyed his greying white hair a little too much giving a sharp white color. His blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. Nim was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Nim decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he desires power and/or immortality

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears tattered old clothes, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 3'4" when asserting himself. With bright silver hair and a scraggly beard. His amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of dire rats may trigger it at times.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Bowyer. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Addict. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This southern man prefers to wear white pants and tee shirts. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has a golden handlebar mustache and slicked back golden hair. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Hûmgrat lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His martial abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Laborer and was forced into it by his family; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 6000 cp. Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp).

Description: She is a pot bellied western woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She is well dressed, constantly wearing a white suit, black shirt, and brown tie. Her white hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. Her eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her mother. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 3000 cp. Moss agate (4 gp).